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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Caramelized pear mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

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Cheeses

Stichelton

United Kingdom. Nottinghamshire.
Blue cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk with a natural rind.

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Cheeses

Cabécou du Fel

France. Occitania. Aveyron.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Salads

Salade périgourdine

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Dordogne (Périgord).
Mixed salad made with croutons, confit or dried duck gizzards, duck breast, walnuts, leafy greens, and tomatoes.

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Onion breadsticks

Breadsticks : small, dry, and elongated breadsticks served as an appetizer.

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Sauces

Black butter sauce

Beurre noir (black butter sauce) : butter cooked until it takes on a dark color, in reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine, vinegar).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Orange givrée

Orange sorbet served in an orange.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Prawn risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Cured Meats

Rustic food buffet

Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, and the guests help themselves.

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Offal and tripe

Sautéed veal kidney with vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallops cassolette porcini mushrooms

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Cheeses

Coutances

France. Normandy. Manche. Coutances.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Beef

Beef estouffade

Estouffade : long cooking in liquid over low heat in a closed container.

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Veal

Roast veal tendron

Tendron : french butcher's cut from the veal breast containing cartilage and layers of fat and meat.

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Cheeses

Tilsit

Germany.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese with cooked pressed paste and washed rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spaghetti with seafood

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Sheep and Goats

Salt-crusted lamb

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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